Cempaka, Banjarbaru: traditional diamond panning of the Martapura fields

Where: Southeast Asia · Asia · approx. -3.51, 114.86 (vicinity only)

Why this spot: Rockhounding locality: alluvial diamond ground worked since the 15th-century Negara Dipa kingdom; around a thousand miners still wash gravels by hand and pump around Cempaka, feeding Martapura's polishing and trading town

What turns up: watch traditional diamond and gold panning, buy diamonds, agate and polished stone in Martapura market

Access: Gray area.

Mining is a local artisanal livelihood, largely informal; visitors are tolerated observers at the pans, arrange a guide from Banjarmasin or Banjarbaru, and do the buying in Martapura's gem market rather than at the pit

Satellite view, historic-map overlays, tide/flow context and field notes are in the app. Exact research detail is part of Pro.